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ESCOLHEU O SEU LUGAR DO LADO DE FORA (Jorge Palma - Jeremias)
" This summer Hagel told US News and World Report: ''The White House is completely disconnected from reality. It's like they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're losing in Iraq."
Não, não é um senador democrata a proferir estas palavras, mas sim o senador republicano Hagel, que é, nem mais nem menos, que o número dois dos republicanos no "Foreign Relations Committee" do senado americano.
A lêr este artigo de opinião de Derrick Z. Jackson no Boston Globe.
In 1983, Gallagher abandoned a successful New York photography career for Utah, where she spent the next seven years documenting the lives of radiation survivors, conducting extensive interviews with those whose lives were radically altered by the nuclear testing conducted by the US government from 1951-1963. Though the cancers, birth defects, and other serious health problems caused by radiation exposure did cause a veritable freak show of physical aberrations, Gallagher eschewed artistic exploitation for a focus on survivor’s own stories, providing a forum for those deemed as a “low-use segment of the population” by the Atomic Energy Commission when deciding where, exactly, to test their bombs. Published by MIT press in 1993, American Ground Zero is Gallagher’s finished documentary of this heinous slice of U.S. history".
Não percam este extraordinário documento.
Desde já fica o aviso, aos corações mais sensiveis, de que quer as imagens de Yusuke Yamamata quer os textos de Carole Gallagher serem duros, muito duros mesmo, mas fundamentais.
The 48-year-old mother of Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, who was killed in an ambush in Baghdad last year, is consumed by the kind of grief that turns into a furious determination to do something — in her case, to confront the president and force him to explain why her son died.
Now, in the space of just a few days, what started out as a seemingly quixotic personal mission has become something of a phenomenon — with media swarming around Sheehan, leading liberal and antiwar activists parachuting in to try to make her their long-sought voice, and political experts in both parties working to assess what role she may have in galvanizing the public's gathering unhappiness with the increasing American casualties in Iraq".
A não perder, este artigo de Edwin Chen e Dana Calvo no Los Angeles Times.
"And then there is Schumer's counterpart, Hillary Clinton, junior senator, Democratic supernova, gearing up for re-election next year, all while lurching to the center and laying the groundwork for a presidential run in 2008. For her, the Roberts nomination makes for some tricky calculations: Should she try to back him, for the chance to look like a centrist, and thus appeal to elusive swing voters across the heartland? Or should she do what her New York constituents want? And what do you say or not say about a jurist expected to help steer the court to the right, but whose enigmatic record makes him tough to peg as extremist? No Democratic senator wants to support a Supreme Court justice who turns out to be the deciding vote against abortion rights, civil rights, gay rights, and a host of progressive issues."
Delicioso texto de Kristen Lombardi na Village Voice.
É um texto longo, muito longo, mas que nos mostra que a vida dos políticos cá como nos EUA não é nada fácil.
Os votos, sempre os votos !
Divirtam-se !
"The life sciences have been slow to embrace blogging. Real slow. The pharmaceutical industry has just about dipped in a toe, but there's been nothing from biotechs, zilch from government laboratories, naught from funding agencies and, most surprisingly of all, diddly squat from academic research labs.
Yet in absolutely every other aspect of human life, blogs already play a part, and an increasingly important part at that. For example, easily the best information that I could get on the pre-G8 summit demonstrations in Edinburgh came not from traditional media reports, nor from family that I have in the city, but from bloggers on the spot, embedded with the protestors or looking on in the streets."
O texto acima foi transcrito de um artigo publicado na respeitada revista The Scientist, com edição na Net.
Merece uma leitura, dado que é sempre interessante verificar que os efeitos das novas tecnologias, neste caso a net e os blogues, podem ter uma enorme influência nas nossas vidas, e muitas vezes sem que nos apercebamos da extensão dessas mudanças.